I did four illustrations for The Nation’s latest Occupy-themed issue. A I grew up reading my dad’s Nation subscription, and was a bit of a high to see my name on their pages.
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I'm Molly Crabapple, an artist and writer in New York. My art show, Shell Game, was covered by press including New Republic, Rolling Stone, Fast Company, Wired, and The American Reader. My work can be found in the permanent collections of the New York Historical Society, the Rubin Museum of Art, and the Groucho Club. I've published several books, including Discordia (with Laurie Penny), and the forthcoming Straw House. I write a monthly column for VICE, and my essays have appeared at CNN, The Paris Review, The Guardian, and Jacobin.
[...] array of work related to #OWS, including portraits, street-art templates, and illustrations for coverage in The Nation and other [...]
[...] other activists said her phone was shut off. Crabapple had recently contributed illustrations as part of the magazine’s Sept. 24 coverage of the movement’s first anniversary and possible [...]
[...] who lives near the Occupy site and was arrested at the first-anniversary event. (And check out the Occupy illustrations that Crabapple did for The Nation — before becoming part of the story [...]